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3 Gang Members Sentenced Following Retaliation Stabbing JUN/12/2017 LOS SANTOS — Three members of an East Vinewood street gang were sentenced to a combined 25 years for their roles in the 2016 stabbing of Bloods-affiliated gang rival Treyvaun Pope after the latter allegedly partially blinded one of the attackers in a previous assault. In separate hearings, US District Judge Randall Archuleta sentenced Soghomon Yeghoyan, 21, a/k/a "AP Pirate", of East Vinewood to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $21,395 in restitution. Judge Archuleta also sentenced Robert Grigoryan, 20, of East Vinewood to 8 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $8,038 in restitution. Finally, Matous Garabedian, 22, a/k/a "AP Rapid", of Temple to 7 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $7,248 in restitution. Yeghoyan, Grigoryan, and Garabedian – all members of the East Vinewood-based Armenian Power (AP13) street gang – all pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a deadly weapon as well as breach of the peace. The harsh sentencing reflects the current Los Santos Mayor Jonathan Schrader's tough-on-crime, pro-police stance for which he won re-election into his second term earlier this year. In response to the sentencing, Mayor Schrader commented: "The sentencing of these individuals shows the need now, more than ever, for us to support our brave law enforcement officers in their selfless struggle to stamp out violence in our streets, whether committed against civilians or other criminals."

You already know what the problem is and how to solve it, you just have no power to. The fight was lost the moment that player attempts to regulate bad roleplay were labelled as "toxic". You either learn to accept and avoid the fedora-toting mallrats that run the economy and find your niche or crash out trying. I don't believe that those steering the ship have had much of a passion for or really any understanding of the tenets of roleplay for years now, even preceding the server's relaunch. While it's great to see there's still a concerted effort to keep the server alive through incremental updates, those of us who are here stay for lack of any viable alternative and not because we love what it has become. We're still making the same complaints we were 10 years ago, just more so because of the smaller player base, and will continue to do so until we get tired of the circus of illiterate, ChatGPT-reliant drones and DM squads hiding behind the guise of "gritty" street gangs... or something changes. I'll let you figure out which of those outcomes is more likely. To paraphrase what I said in Busato's thread a few months back: enjoy the ride while it lasts.

This is the greatest character development thread of all time.

This is the Valenti we remember and adore.

So this is what happens when you shut down Grape... A hard lesson for us all.

Blender skills on point.

Hrach's practically an honorary member of the tribe with a beak like that.

It's a return to form.

LS-RP has been sorely lacking a solid hotline bookie. Glad to see somebody giving this a shot.

Well this is certainly refreshing. I applaud you all for taking it upon yourselves to get the SD back on track. It's always been my favourite of our LEAs and the one most welcoming of experimentation in how it operates and interacts with the rest of the server. Good luck to you all. What exactly caused the shake-up besides the drop in activity?

Consales? I'm not trusting a Mexican with my bookkeeping...

Things are looking up.

Joe Rinse's ears are burning...

SHQIPERIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA About time you made this. Looking forward to it.

You guys really need to chill with the ChatGPT. Nobody's going to respect you if you keep clowning on the English language.

Peckerwoods OMG is a white supremacist motorcycle gang with ties to the broader American white nationalist movement in. It is inherently political. So is this a realistic depiction or not?

Capable hands.

clack what the fuck is this

I want to see houses that take up entire low-rise condos turned into complexes and the apartments sold at market price. Temple and East Beach are particularly bad offenders.

Motherfucker be running all over the state but still look like he mainline insulin for breakfast.

I was going to dismiss this thread after my initial post. It's easy to get cynical with this game after so long but having roleplayed with you twice, I'll give you a bit of constructive feedback that'll make your time here much more enjoyable: be humble. Learn to take an L. In fact, learn to take several Ls. Do not be tempted to take every issue in-game to local OOC or (god forbid) an admin sit. Your faction is new. Your characters are new. Nobody knows you. Los Santos wasn't built yesterday and there are established criminal groups and powerful characters still extant that have been pulling strings for years. You're clearly a good roleplayer and I can see that your heart is in the right place in the way you lead your faction and the way you've opened up this topic to community... but you've gotta chill out. Letting emergent roleplay affect your character in the long-term is one of the hallmarks of a great roleplayer. Tommy Collins needs to let in-game actions whittle him into a jigsaw piece fit for the puzzle that is the Los Santos criminal underworld. You're going to have an exceptionally difficult time doing it any other way, as players who couldn't separate their OOC ego from their character (a certain white rapper from New York City comes to mind) found out. You're right, the whole playerbase has never behaved as such but the average player has. Each of the main character domains (illegal; LEO; government/civilian) have been touched and reformed by players whose background in more refined forms of emergent roleplay has influenced the server as a whole. With the right crowd you can still feel the effects over a decade later. People fell in line not out of obligation to some OOC figurehead like Martin_Busato but because the practices they preached made the game more fun and more fair. But that code of conduct, much like it did on older text-heavy roleplay games like Habbo and TSRP, only works as long as everybody involved tows the line. We regulated this largely ICly through the use of CKs, only stepping OOC when the issue became particularly disruptive.

The LS-RP in your head has not existed since at least a few years prior to the closure. That's the best part of a decade at this point. The average new player cannot be trusted to be operating under the same unspoken code of conduct as in the past and why should they be expected to? The majority older community members, whose backgrounds in more mature, character-focused roleplay formats, have moved on or been spurned by poor staff decisions. The staff have never been the arbiters of good roleplay, only what is right and wrong in terms of player actions. Of course these newer players are going to be lead astray given their origins in more action-oriented games and the script's reliance on RPG mechanics and grinding. It's been memed to death over the years but the admins do actually have access to the mythical "logs" that will tell them exactly who has killed who. If you've been DMed and have sufficient evidence, the rules can be enforced. If a member of staff has told you otherwise, they're holding on to their green name for e-clout and little else. Report them as well while you're at it. Or just join Valenti.

Logged back on for the first time in over 6 months and had to download 600+ models. I drove around for a little bit and besides the new skins I could only find a few custom police precincts. Is there anywhere that lists what all this content actually is? Are there any plans to add the custom buildings modders like asapdev made to replace the Seville back alley?